Go · blink-182

79 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7 and 21-27 -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
GO · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 36, 38, 40 and 6 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 10 sections: 51 keep time, 12 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-56.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART A
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEACIB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Go?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Go hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Go?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 36, 38, 40 and 6 more.

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